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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	gregkh@suse.de, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: pci.h stubs (was: EDD build error)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:32:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070627143252.GW22063@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070627153258.50d5dac3@the-village.bc.nu>

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 03:32:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:03:05 -0600
> Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:55:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:30:48 -0600
> > > Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
> > > > pci_get_bus_and_slot() shouldn't be used because it fails to work on
> > > > systems with multiple domains.  pci_get_slot() avoids this problem (and
> > > > is much faster too).
> > > 
> > > But requires you have a bus pointer to hand which is often not the
> > > case. Do we need pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() ?
> > 
> > We have pci_find_bus(domain, busnr) which will get you the bus pointer.
> 
> So the answer is "yes" we should then, and move from pci_get_bus_and_slot
> to pci_get_bus_domain_and_slot() [or just add an argument]. The point of
> the functions is to be easy to use, so it should be handled internally.

My point was that code which doesn't currently keep the bus pointer to
hand should keep the bus pointer to hand instead of the bus number.
That's easier to use, particularly if you want to actually do any pci
config accesses.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-27 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-26 20:26 EDD build error Randy Dunlap
2007-06-26 22:16 ` Torsten Duwe
2007-06-26 22:33   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-26 22:44     ` Torsten Duwe
2007-06-26 23:14       ` Randy Dunlap
     [not found] ` <20070627024505.GA30197@humbolt.us.dell.com>
2007-06-27 11:30   ` pci.h stubs (was: EDD build error) Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-27 13:55     ` Alan Cox
2007-06-27 14:03       ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-27 14:32         ` Alan Cox
2007-06-27 14:32           ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-06-27 15:07             ` Alan Cox
2007-06-27 16:41       ` pci.h stubs H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-27 16:54         ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-27 17:25           ` Alan Cox
2007-06-27 18:34             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-28 23:04               ` [PATCH] PCI: limit pci_get_bus_and_slot to domain 0 Randy Dunlap
2007-06-28 23:48                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-28 23:25   ` [PATCH] pci.h stubs (for EDD build error) Randy Dunlap

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